Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1921, Page 63

L, - AMUSEMENTS. FILMOGRAMS (NEORGE MELFORD'S picture, “The Shelk,” smashed all the Broad- way picture records at the Rivoll and Rialto theaters, where it was scen by 112,625 people—more than saw “The Affairs of Anatol” and “Decep- tion,” the record-breakers prior to its coming. AMUSEMENTS. - g | T};}%HOT LE‘S IR-GILBERT PARKER, the eminent British novelist, now a writer for the photoplay, has taken up his cudgel to establish the fact that now motion pictures are an Industry AND an Art. There ought to be no necessity for raising this question. It is true that it has been raised, some folks warmly contending that motion pic- tures are an Art and some, with equal vehemence that they are an Indus- try. The plain fact, as stated by Sir Gilbert, is that they are both an Industry AND an Art—an Art when made for and by those who know what Art is, and an Industry when made for and by those whose sole purpose in making them is “financial return.” * X k% SO very many of the modern producers have been engaged for the last- ' named purpose in perpetuating the silent drama that it has naturally misled quiet, contemplative people into believing that beyond the mat- ter of financial feturns there is no room in the world for cinematography. But happily there are those who both promote and make artistic pictures. and the battle to increase the number will always be bitterly waged until it is clearly established that the larger and better part of the American people are lined up on the side of Art,"and that the concupiscence which patronizes the problem play and the forbidden and seems to create the financial returns for the itching palm does not truly-represent she real public admiration for or interest in the Photoplay. W. H. L. Photoplays This Week i) # AT PHOTOPLAY HOUSES ALL THIS WEEK PALACE—Doris May, in “The Foolish Age.” Opens this afternoon. METROPOLITAN—Charles Ray, in “Two Minutes to Go.” Opens i this afternoon. , !1 RIALTO—Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres, in “The Sheik.” Opens this afternoon. | COLUMBIAL-D. W. Griffith’s “Way Down East.” Opens-this aftere { noon. THE SUNDAY STKE, WASHINGTON, 'D."U,” NOVEMEER 27, 199{—PART 3.~ appetite and trimming his menu onm the theory athletee must show mod- eration in the use of food supplies, if they wish to remain agile The paragrapher can always work out his own salvation. After credit. ing Zena Keefe with being a harpsi- chordist, Owen Moore a golfist, Elaine Hammerstein a pianist, Ralph Ince a boxer and Conway Tearle a dancer, he accords to Eugene O'Lrien the palm of being an expert walker. “Theron of Lost Valley,” by Virgie Roe, which is to be Dorothy Dalton’s next picture, is a western story. “Scandal.” the first picture in which Selznick starred Constance Talmadge. is being “revived” Those producing folks never miss a trick, do they? Samuel Goldwyn, president of Gold- wyn Pictures, thinks the screen needs new faces more than anything clse— or does he mean cheaper faces? Even the film firmament isn't safe from corporate greed. Gouverncur Morris has just com- pleted a new story, “Always Warm and Green”; Kathleen Norris, one called “The Happiest Night of Her Life”; and Rupert Hughes, one called “Remembrance” Katharine Newlin Burt also has written a new one, “The Summons,” and ail are to be pictured by Goldwyn in early productions. Associated First National's press man says the girls of Los Angeles have gone in strong for knickerbockers— for themselves, of course. Mabel Normand. after a long ab- sence, has reappeared via the Mack Sennett route in “Molly O,” a human story of a poor little girl, who, like Cinderella, stole away to.a mask bail and encountered romance. Vitagraph announces that “The Prodigal Judge,” a story of the old south of 1835, is almost completed. It was founded on Vaughan Kester's novel. Earle Williams' new picture, “Lucky Carson,” is now receiving its final ed- iting and titling. Florence Vidor, the Thomas H. Ince star, is wearing a wrap of fileld mouse duvetyn, with deep collar and cuffs of brown kolinsky fur, which ought to make happy the girls who haven't one. “Silas Marner” has been adapted for the screen. George Fawcett will ha: the leading role. It is George Ellot story, of cour: Constance Talmadge's new picture, “The Divorcee,” may have something to do with the rumors that have been floating around about the star and her domestic felicity. Press agents are ingenious. George Arliss is reported as now ing on “Idle Hands a short which recently appeared in the magazines. . president of National al Motion Pictures, Inc., establishment of branch of his c in and Wash- ington is so near to the District of Columbia. ~How ver. some day the theater industry will iearn that Wash- mother love, is said to present a true|ington is the capital of these Ui profile of life on New York's E: !lslzle!‘v 5 i Side, with all the romance, heart in- terest and adventure of an O. Henry story. Fred Niblo, who directed Dougla: Fairbanks in “The Three Musketeers,’ will direct Anita Stewart's new pic- ture, “The Woman He Married. Katherine MacDonald is gaid to have an unusual story in “The Infidel, which wae written for her by Charles A. Logue. It is a tale of the South Sea copra trade. “The Song of Life” based on Avenue Grand Theater announces for Thursday night, Ida and Eddie Clarke, plano accordion virtuosa and tenor goloist. respective. ly, to supply the musical divertise- ment. Crandall's PALACE—“The Foolish Age.” { Avenue Grand. Doris May, formerly co-star with| Today and tomorrow, Thomas Mei- “Pouglas MacLean, will be seen this| ghan, in “Cappy Ricks”; Tuesday and week as the featured star at Loew's| Wednesday, Anna Q. Nilson, in “Why . Palace Theater, beginning this after- | Girls Leave Home"; Thursday, House noon, In “The Foolish Age,” the first| Peters, in “The Invisible Power" of a series of Robertson-Cole comedy- | Friday, Tom Moore and Helene Chad- romances in which Miss May will ab- | Tr\ing Gumiomg s, Cigund Up: and Irving Cummings, in “Op t! -ail,” pear later. The program will include | and Saturday. Wande Hawlos: in “ier also short-length camera subjects ;‘"0 Value”; comedy, “Snooky’'s La- and an orchestral overture. and matinee attraction, “Hurricane Hutch” No. 7. “The Foolish Age” was written and == directed by Hunt Stromberg, and con- Circle. cerns the daughter of a wealthy man - whol msms that she shallohmurry lfl Today and tomorrow, Betty Comp- wealth and position, which the girl|son, in “Th declines to do, but evolves the idea|g, b= on F‘:"",,"P’ the World"; Tues of uplifting the poor and the down- [ FY; Goliwyn's “Poverty of Riches trodden and of bringing sunshine into | 3o tIACRIRY: AMystery, Row'; Th the lives of those who are unfortu- | jn .yl m oAy, Douglass Fairbank nate. This is accomplished with the | yraay, Will Rogers, in oa” and ald of a number of rather rough|gjonn’ LS I oor Rela- characters. = METROPOLITAN—Charles Ray— Buster Keaton. Crandall's Metropolitan Theater. this week, beginning this afternoon, will offer “Two Minutes to Go,” the newest of Charles Ray’s own productions for First National. It starts with a laugh, runs into romance and ends with a succession of thrills. It1s the story of a boy who works his way through col- lege by means of a milk route of which most of his friends—especially “the girl"—are ignorant. When the day of the big game arrives, he comes to the rescue of his college in the hope that it will clinch hi$ suit for the favor of the girl. “The Boat” is one of the most re- markable maritime specimens ever slipped down the ways and its maiden cruise furnishes one of the screen’s most resourceful comedians ample outlet for his comedy gift. News, topical, scenic and other mi- nor films will be shown, together gith special musical feature: RIALTO—“The Sheik.” “The Sheik,” featuring Rudolph Val- entino_and Agnes Ayres, will be con- tinued for another week, beginning to- Doris Mavi~ Palades A Little Chat by Doris May. | 'HANCE plays & big part in the moving picture theater and in the making of screen celebrities. The lightning of opportunity seldom |strikes in the same place twice, and the most must be made of an oppor- tunity. Thus Doris May, a young lady who is known to Washington movie fans as the co-star with Douglas Mac- Lean, in “Twenty-three and a Half Hours' Leave” and “Mary's Ankle” laughed’ so genuinely and heartily when Hunt Stromberg read the story of “The Foolish Xge” that immediate- 1y she was put under contract for a series of comedies in which laughs are the chief ingredient. “The gifts of God are flung about like corn to chickens. Men are the most unequal things the Lord ever made,” said Miss May, to an inter- viewer recently. “One soaks in knowledge like a cat lapping milk, and it takes a surgical operation to get anything into another's head. People say men act on reason and women on instinct, but really men act on instinct and afterward find a reason. Women acting on instinct never bother about a reason, and so they enjoy their foolish age.” Miss May prefers the screen to the stage. She does not insist that the stage 1s her metier, and that she makes films for purely commercial reasons. No, Doris is not that kind. ‘Clay Dollars’ ‘hursday, Mabel | She tells us frankly that she can get Ball, in “East Lynne”; Friday, "“Out|so much closer to the public on the of the Dust” and Satyrday, Wanda % 1d {n her own way, she Hawley, in_“Her Face Valu Your theater audience lis- Sennett’s “On a Summer" tens and applauds if you are lucky enough to please them. Then the inci- N. Mirskey. director of the sym phony orchestra of thirty solo artists at Crandall's Metropolitan Theater, and Signor Natiello, conductor of the Knickerbocker hony Orchestra, iy it is announced, have arranged u Now they are trying to make|usually interesting musical programs trouble for Nathalie Talmadge. They | for the week beginning this afternoon say she is curbing Buster Keaton's|at 3. L. Stoddard Taylor And the Shubert-Garrick HE theatergoing public of Wash- ington has had the opportunity of witnessing a remdrkable change mhonel The walls are paneled of its local playhouses this fall. Wnen |gold and ornamented with bronze Manager L. Stoddard Taylor nmumedi;’}:l‘lues anrll r_enroduc;ignl qfh old - e ian masterpieces. e architec- control of tae Shubert-Garrick he dis- | yil'40 SRGCERIETCS, | ThE Tciitess covered possibilities in the theater|to mind a picture of the Villa Bor- which had heretofore been unrecognized, | ehese, set like a gem in its vast gar- and not only has it been completely re- | 4€ns on the outskirts of Rome—gar- modeled and redecorated under his di- In “Love Never Dies,” his newest production, King Vidor is said to have achieved even greater success than with “The Turn in the Road Rav._ : Mefropolitar> CONSTANCE BINNEY-Knickerbocker™ For Mothers to See. Better pictures for children has been the cry from all parts of the United States by ministers, school of- ficlals, women's organizations, cénsor boards, newspapers and mothers. A Chicago film company has just com- pleted three fairy tales—'Little Red Riding Hood,” with a cast of 400 chil- dren; “Cinderella and the Magic Slip- per,”” with a cast of 350 children, and “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” with a cast of 350 children. The child ac- tors in all these pictures range in ages from two to fifteen years. ‘Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, at Crandall's Knickerbocker Theater, there will be shown for the women, especially the mothers of Washing ton, two of these pictures, “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,” which later may be used in the schools and churches of Wash- ington. private showing, it is announced, is absolutely free, and the management hopes that mothers of Washington, who want their children to see better and cleaner pictures will attend this showing. NEXT WEEK'S PHOTOPLAYS. Metropolitan. Norma Talmadge, in her latest First National attraction, “The Won- derful Thing.” Knickerbocker. “The Wohderful Thing.” starring Norma Talmadge; Jack Holt and Lila Lee, in “After the Show,” and Mr.and Mrs. Carter de Haven, in "My Lady Friends.” Crandall’s. “Why Girls Leave Home.” featuring Anna Q. Nilsson and others. Rialto. “Under the Lash.” an adaptation of Edward Knobloc) y “The Shu- Today and tomorrow, Rupert Hughes' “The Old Nest”; Tuesday, Elsie Ferguson, in “Sacred and Pro- fane Lov: also Pathe News and ‘Topics of the Day: Wednesday and Thursday, Charlle Chaplin, in “The ldle Class,” and David Butler, in “Making the Grade”; Friday, Vivian Martin, In “Pardon My French,” and episode 11 of “Do or Die,” and Satur- day, “Deception. Republic. Today, tomorrow - and Tuesday, Pauline Frederick, in “The Sting of the Lash,” and Montgomery and Rock, in Girlies and Grubbers”; Wednesday, Thursday d Friday, Lois Weber's “The Blot,” and the Hallroom Boys, in “Meet the Wife,” and Saturday, Will_Rogers, in “A Poor Relation,’ and “The Day Resurgent’ !lay and Saturday, episode 4 of “Breaking Savoy. ! Through.” Today and tomorrow, Thomas Mei- ghan, in “Cappy Ricks”: Tuesday and ‘Wednesday, Anna Q. Nilsson, in “Why Girls Leave Home": Thursday, “The Golem"; Friday, “The Princess of Broadway,” and Charlie Chaplin, in “The Idle Class,” and Saturda; Moore and Helene Chadwick, In “From the Ground Up"; Lloyd Ham- ilton, In “Robinson usoe, Lt :ltlneo attraction, 0. 7. enough to please them next time. Not S0 with the film fans. They write long and intimate letters: tell you the most personal things, offer the mo earnest criticism and naive sugge tion. 'he screen mirrors one's thoughts. Modern methods call for camera act- ing that is almost all thought. There is very little gesture, almost no speech, but one must think his role. So there is a psychic quality that brings the player very close to those ) Who watch her on the screen. “And think of the camera’s exceed- ingly personal research. We are photographed in the most intimate af- fairs; photographed eating, sleeping, starving, waking. Every one knows that the camera is quick to betray a tired face; it is, therefore, a mat- ter of business for plain folk to lead normal lives with plenty of sleep, rest, the right kind of food and prop- er exercise. I refuse all invitations for evening affairs while making pic- tures. The price of a good time is too exorbitant when one’s work is before the camera; there are few who are willing to pay it. My name is the one with which I left the baptismal font in Trinity Church, Seattle. It never occurred to me to change it, though a good many screen stars decided a rose by another name cotld smell sweeter in electric lights. Mary Pickford’s name lys Mary Smith, Ethel Van Waldron' was Maude Ethel Jones, Viola Dana was Leona Flu- grath and her ter, Shirley Mason, also Flugrath. Then there is Mary Miles Minter in reality Juliet Shelby, and Mary McLaren, born MacDonald, and Betty Blythe, originally Rebecca Slaughter, and Wanda Hawley, who Swedish name w. S0 unpronounc able that she adopted her husband for screen purposes, also Lila Lee, o is really Gussie Apfel. It is pot easy to beaing a Lovely, 2 while a profusion of autumn foliage appears throughout the house to lend a rich harmony of coloring. Tablets in memory of David Garrick appear at each side of the fover, been placed above the boxes adj |cent to the stage. in buff and Criterion. “Fightin’ Mad,” now being shown at the Criterion Theater, is a picture of a red-blooded young American who finds the course of ordi life rather too prosaic and seeks adven- ture by becoming a member of the border patrol. Elite. Today and tomorrow, Mary Pickford, in “The Love Light"; Tuesday, Sessue Hayakawa, in “Where Lights Low™; Wednesday, David Pfawell.-irr.l ¥ ; Thursday, All Brady, in “Little Italy” Frld’l’ E‘:a gene O'Brien, in “Clay Dollars’ Saturday, Gloria Swanson, in Great Moment.” Dumbarton. Sunday and Monday, Constance Tal- madge, in_ *" day, Mary Mil “The York. Today and tomorrow, Richard Bar- thelmess, in “Experience”; Tuesday, eters, in “The Invisible ednesday, Eugene O'Brien, T , in “The Idle Class’ day, “Poverty, Riches”; Friday, Beggar in Purple,” and Saturday, E dens that are filled with crumbling rection, but the very spirit of the place splendor. Both the Villa Borghese that few of us can fail to appreciate. |and through successive generations Thick velvet carpets of dark crimson |City of Washington, and perhaps it is fragile gilded baskets laden 2 mitting that everytiung appears lovelier burlesque stock company a couple of intervals along the corridors. leen Percy, in “A Maid of the West.” her nimble dancing. and promoted | columns “of classic structures, more !\.:aumul with the shadowy imprint has altered. In contrast to the coldness |f time upon them than they were n_ the days of thei 1y of & vast auditorium, the limited size ? o il Borghese of the Shubert-Garrick affords a draw-\and the huge Palazzo within the - gates o ome stood for the noble: ing-roomlike atmosphere of INUMAcY i yia)jan architecture when the re- | vival of antique art was at its height, The artistic is emphasized rather than |&nd through successive H y ey ve never ceased to comman. the commercial, and there is an air of | ;qmiration and to inspire emulation. coziness and refinement about the|And o we have a bit of reproduction place that is truly charming. |in this little playhouse in our own hush the sounds of footsteps, while at |like a breath from tia old Romean the rear curtains of tae same hue form |garden wafted across the seas to a partition. This is bridged at the aisies | brighten our prosaic world of today. with graceful arches from which are ELENORE DE WITT EBY. fing wistaria blooms. The ceil- ! ing in etudded with lights subdued by | KItty Warren, soubrette of the rose-tiated glasses, so that the spectator [ Golden Crook Company, is a former cannot help but follow the adage in ad- | Washington @ctress, having appeared at the old Lyeeum Theater with a when viewed through them. Supple- mentary lighting is_afforded by two- | seasons ago. Miss Warren's rise from branch candelabra masked with dainty | chorus girl to_soubrette started at French tapestry shades, and placed at|the Lyceum, for it was there that & | burlesque manager was attracted by Just within the entrance a tuoch of beauty is given by a pedestal sur- |her to a lesding role. She is con- mountde by a large vase constantly | sidered one of the best soubrettes ‘A i- Swanson. day, at Moore's Rialto Theater. it is handsomely staged, full of color, vivid action, and dramatic situations and is costumed with barbaric beauty. program of minor attractions also will be continued. ; Johnnle Walker and Edna Murphy, i soons csome COLUMBIA—D. W. Griffith’s|“7he"Jo1e also a Sunshine comedy. o 9 TODAY FINAL “Way Down East.” ;Say 1t With Flowers'; Frida sy TS 'revost, in ‘““Moonlight Follie: FORTMOST D. W. Grifith’s masterpiece, “Way | episode No. 11 of “The Terror Trail o AT 2:30 WEEK Down East,” will be shown this week | Saturday, Willlam Russell, in “Sing- 200 OTLOCK PROTORAT i at popular prices at Loew’'s Columbia Theater, beginning this afternoon. It is D. 's beautiful scregn adaptation of Lottie Blaire Parke: rural romance, which scored a bril- liant success both during its stage career and in its picturized version. Richard Barthelmess and Lillian Gish, Griffith screen stars of the first magnitude, have the roles of chief prominence, and the cast includes Lowell Sherman, Mary Hay, Kate Bruce, Burr Mclntosh, Crelghton Hale, Edgar Nelson and many others. The story concerns Anna Moore, de ceived by a scoundrel, forced into a life of drudgery, hounded by gossips and scandalmongers of a small New England town until, in desperation, she wanders out into a blizzard and is resoued just in time to save her from a frightful death by the youth Wwho loves her and is willing to forget a past. A KNICKERBOCKER—Charles Ray, Buster Keaton. Crandall's Knickerbocker Theater will present today and tomorrow Charles Ray's First National produc- tion, “Two Minutes To Go, and Buster Keaton v tional comedy, “The Boat,” together with & variety of short-reel features and a special concert number by the orchestra, selections from “The Girl in the Spotlight”; Tuesday and Wednes- day, Elsie Ferguson, in “Footlights, a picturization of the story by Rita Weiman; Harry Polland, in “Penny In the Slot,” and a new issue of the Fathe Review; Thursday and Friday, for the first time here, Realarts film version of Frances Starr's Belasco ge play, “The Case of Becky," with ‘onstance Binney in the dual role of Dorothy and Becky. and also the ocomedy, “A Toonerville Tangle,” and Saturday, Ethel Clayton, in “Bxit the Vamp”; 'Lloyd Hamilton, in _“For Land's Sake”; a new issue of “Soreen Snapshots” and the “Raymond Over- ture,” by Thomas. CRANDALL'S—“The Speed Girl.” Bebe Daniels, in Elmer Harris' swift-moving comedy-romance, “The Speed Girl,” will be the star of the Dbill_the first three days of this week at Crandall's Theater, and Mack Sen- nett's laughable production of “His Unbappy Finish,” a two-reel ab- surdity, will be an added attraction; Wednesday and Thursday, Mabel Jullenne Scott and Stuart Holmes, In Universal's production, “No Woman a film version of Edna Fer- nd Saturday, a new Federat- od Hearts and Masks,” fea- furin Elinor Flelds, with Francis Donald, Lloyd Bacon, son of Frank Bacon, star of “Lightnin’,” and Molly McConnell, also “The Vagrant," short subjects and pipe organ ac- companiment. Apollo. Today and tomorrow, Anna Q. Nil son, In 'WHJ Girls Leave Home' B Tuyesday Wednes Melghan, in “Cappy Ricks Eugene O’'Brien, in “Cl Fridey. Will Rogers, in “A Poor R Charlie Chaplin, in “A Dog’s Polychrome, “Snowbound and Saturday, “Out of the Harry Pollard, in “On Loca- Y m:." and matines zicane Hutch® No. 6. two-reel First N s Empire. Today and tomorrow, Babara Bed- ford, in “The Face of the World, also Mutt and Jeff and Topics of th Day; Tuesday, a ing River."” | Home. Today, “The Poverty of Riches"; tomorrow, Wililam Fairbanks, in “Western' Pep”; Tuesday, Wiillem Desmond &nd Anna Reubens, in “A Master of Hi ome”; Wednesday, Hoot Gibson, In “Action”; Thursday, David Powell, in “The Mystery Road' Friday, Charile Chaplin, Marie Dre ler and Mabel Normand, in_ “Tillle’ Punctured Romance” and Saturday, Richard Barthelmess, In “Experience. Lyric. Today and tomorrow, Herbert Raw- linson, in “The Wakefield Case, Fox Sunshine comedy, *“ Ticke! House Pe! y y, Marie Prevos " and Nick Carter, in *“The Great Opium Case”; Friday, Frank Mayo, in “The Fighting Lover, and Saturday, Hoot Gibson, in “Auc- Il matinee only, “The Invisible Ray, 'No. 2. New. Today, Jack Hoxie, in “Sheriff of Hope Eternal,” ali in * Line”; Friday, George Walsh, in “Blue Blood and Red,” and Saturday, all- comedy night. New Stanton. Today, Sessue Hayakawa, in “Black Roses,” and Sunshine comedy, “The fit:li:r" ::Om'JPN)"- Gflgf.l’! ‘Walsh and riam Cooper, in ‘“Serenade,’ Ann Little, in * Fe .aud day, Eugene O'Brien, Martha Ma: Wednesday, 1 “Love Time”; Friday, Lionel B ry'.I moi in “The Great Adventure, d Charlie Chaplin, in “By the Sea;” Sat- urday, Riethard Dix Beatrice Joy, Frankie Lee and Lucille Rickson, in “The Poverty of Riches.” Olympic. Today and tomorrow Betty Comp- son, in “At the End of the World' matinee Sunday, 3 3 Mary Miles Minter, in Clyde Cook, Buater Koaton, fa ~The Saphesd.: sl us y 2 “Prisma"”; Friday, Bebe Danj [ Mt Bpeed Girl”; Fri ‘Almost an Qutlaw,’ lard, in “Sweet Bye and By day, Pauline Fyederick, in “The Sting of the Lash,” also Mutt and Jeff and Pathe News. Princess. Today, Charles Ray, in “Scrap tomorrow, Will Rogers, in “Boys Will Be Boyas"; Tuesday, “The Princess of New York.” with David ‘Wednesday, William Dunc: French.” and matinee attraction, * 6. Hutch” N WITH RICHARD BARTHLEMESS AND LILLIAN GISH LOWELL CREIGHTON HALE AND A TYPICAL GRIFFITH CAST dent is closed until you are lucky'I remain plain May. 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